Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae

Eutanyacra jucunda (Kriechbaumer, 1882)

Material examined.

Hungary, Veszprém County, Kapolcs, Pokol-Hole, DFE: 4 m, 5 July 2012-13 November 2012, pitfall traps no. 1-3., leg. Cs. Kutasi, 1 ♀.

Remarks.

A very rare species described and known only from the Carpathian Basin (Kriechbaumer 1882, Mocsáry 1886, Constantineanu 1959). This species is first reported here in association with hypogean habitat. No specific details are known about its biology; however, other Eutanyacra species are parasitoids of various caterpillar hosts (mainly Noctuidae), and the females overwinter as adults (Constantineanu 1959, Rasnitsyn 1964, Yu et al. 2012).